Samuel C.C. Ting was born on 27 January 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,
where his parents, Professor K.H. Ting and Professor Jeanne M.Wong Ting,
were students at the University of Michigan. His family returned to China
a few months later.

Education

Elementary and secondary education took place in China, during the 1936-1956
period. S.C.C. Ting excelled in mathematics, science and history. In 1956,
he returned to the United States to attend the University of Michigan as
an engineering student, but he soon transferred his major to physics.

Higher Education

1959: awarded BSE (in physics) and BSE (in mathematics) from the University
of Michigan

1962: awarded Ph.D. (in physics) from the University of Michigan.

Academic and Research Position

In 1963, S.C.C. Ting was granted a Ford Foundation Fellowship to work at
the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland.
He returned to the United States in 1964 to become an instructor at Columbia
University in New York. In 1966, he became the leader of an experimental
group at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. In 1969,
he was appointed Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in 1977 he was selected as
the first recipient of the Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professorship
at MIT.

The Eringen Medal awarded by the Society of Engineering Science in 1977

Foreign Member of the Pakistani Academy of Sciences in 1984

DeGasperi Award in Science, by the Government of Italy in 1988

Golden Lecpard Award for Excellence, by the town of Taormina, Italy, in
1988

Gold Medal for science by the city of Brescia, Italy, 1988

Foreign Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1989

Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1993

Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994

Member Deutsche Akademie Der Naturforscher Leopoldina in 1996

Doctor Honoris Causa

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., 1978

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1987

University of Jlatcng, Shanghal, China in 1987 (Honorary Professorship)

University of Bologna, Italy, 1988

Columbia University, New York, U.S.A., 1990

University of Science and Technology, China, 1990

Moscow State University , Moscow, 1991

University of Bucharest, Romania, 1993

Contribution to Physics:

Samuel Ting's research has centered on experimental particle physics, quantum
electrodynamics, and the interaction of photons with matter. His most important
wok includes :

Discovery of the anti-deuteron.

A twenty-year series of experiments testing the validity of quantum electrodynamics
and showing that electrons, muons, and tau mesons are pointlike particles
with a radius smaller than 10-17 cm.

Precision studis of leptonic decays of vector mesons, measuring the branching
ratio and the production phase of these photon-like particles and providing
an important check of the Ualidity of the quark model.

A study of photoproduction of vector mesons demonstrating the similarity
between photons and vector mesons.

Discovery of the J particle.

A systematic study of muon pair production at the CERN Intersecting Storage
Ring to investigate the scaling behaviour and production mechanisms of
heavy photons.

Discovery of gluon jets.

A systematic study of gluon physics at the Electron-Positron colliding
beam accelerator PETRA.

A precision measurement of muon charge asymmetry, demonstrating for the
first time the validity of the Standard electroweak Model.

Determination of the number of neutrino species and the precision measurement
of the Z0 decay parameters at LEP, the 100 GeVe+e- collider beam accelerator

Samuel C.C. Ting

1936

Born, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

1936-1956

Early education in China. Retruned to the United States in 1956 to
attend the University of Michigan.

1959

BSE (physics and mathematics), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1962

Ph.D. in physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1963

Ford Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN),
Geneva, Switzerland